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Plot Summary:
A simple man, Dr. Walter Newman has high aspirations to cure all disease through genetic manipulation. His obsession with his mission draws him deeper into his own dark world, distracting him from his wife Olivia and from his responsibilities to his patients at the Edgewood Asylum. The doctor's loyal but diabolical nurse, Ms. Tinsley, decides to take matters into her own hands and in secret she conducts her own experiment. When Dr. Newman realizes what has been done, a deformed creature that defies nature is created. Part human, part nightmare. Dr. Newman knows what he must do, but is it already too late?.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, rough, scary, bleak
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Abduction (2009)
Plot Summary:
ABDUCTION: The town of Process is located somewhere in rural New Jersey. It's been in existence for over 100 years, although it's not on any known map. It's a nice place to visit, with lovely shops and friendly people. That is unless you are single, young, healthy and good looking! It's even worse if you are a female of childbearing age. The town has a very lucrative underground and Internet business specializing in selling human organs for transplant, selling babies to loving couples who are barren and auctioning young women into sex slavery.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: realistic, scary, rough, serious, offbeat
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Scream of the Banshee (2011)
Plot Summary:
An archeology professor unearths a dangerous artifact, unwittingly releasing a creature that is able to kill with the power of its bone-splitting scream.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, dark, demonic, psychotronic, independent film
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Tomcat: Dangerous Desires (1993)
Plot Summary:
Jacki, a scientist involved in genetic research, meets Tom, a young modern dancer who is suffering from a degenerative nerve disease. Jacki experiments with using genetic material taken from a cat to cure him, but the cure has side effects, and Tom begins to take on feline characteristics that may turn him into a monster. The situation is further complicated by Tom's attachment to Imogen--and Jacki's growing jealousy as she fears the loss of her patient and lover.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, scary, sexual, surprise ending, sexy
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Hidden 3D (2011)
Plot Summary:
Brian's mother dies and is surprised when he inherit's The Sanctuary, her controversial experimental treatment center for addictions. When he and his friends are shown around the dilapidated building by a mysterious employee, it is clear that there is a sinister mood. Despite this the group enters a secret underground passage and the terrible reality is revealed. Brian's mother had built a revolutionary machine that cured people of their addiction, but as a side effect to materialize the addictions in a mutated form of children who are addicted to human flesh which have moved into the building.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, psychological, slasher, scary
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Inside (2012)
Plot Summary:
Prison inmate Miles Barrett is ripped awake in the middle of the night by a terrifying crash, gunfire, and the sickening screams of a man being torn apart. Something is loose in the prison - and it's coming for Miles.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, tense, suspense, psychological, rough, serious, independent film
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Killers 2: The Beast (2002)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, independent film, exciting, suspenseful
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Parasite (2004)
Plot Summary:
An abandoned oil rig in the middle of the North Sea. Dr. Christine Hansen is charged with the task of testing an experimental cleaning fluid which could revolutionize the oil industry. Hired to carry out the tests is Jacob Rasmussen and his rough and ready crew of deconstruction engineers. But within hours one of them is missing under suspicious circumstances. Things go from bad to worse when environmental activist Mickey Hennessey and his hard-bitten associates seize control of the rig, taking everybody on board hostage. But very soon oil workers and environmentalists will be compelled to join forces in an evolutionary battle for survival. For a savage new life-form has made its home on the rig. And it is hungry.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, rough, serious, experimental
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Gun Town (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends go on a road trip soon after their high school graduation and get lost in the middle of nowhere. They stumble upon an abandoned Wild West tourist attraction that was abandoned when the former owner went crazy and killed several customers. The friends are captured and murdered one-by-one - could the crimes be the doing of the former owner who was just released from the state mental hospital after serving thirty years and will anyone escape from the maniacal killer?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, independent film, surprise ending
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Haunting of Cellblock 11 (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of ghost hunters must up their game to compete in the competitive world of paranormal TV shows, leading them to a truly haunted prison with a grisly past that proves to be more than they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, mockumentary, slasher
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Army of the Damned (2013)
Plot Summary:
The filming of a hit reality TV show goes horribly wrong when a group of small town cops respond to a call that brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, domestic disturbance.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, thought provoking, disturbing, detective
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Dead Men Walking (2005)
Plot Summary:
A viral outbreak turns those who are infected into the walking dead. Soon, the undead are contained, being kept in a maximum security prison. However, those who contained the undead are also trapped in this zombie-infested prison. Their only hope is to escape; but once you're inside this prison, there's really no way of getting out safely.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, creepy, psychotronic
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The Terror Experiment (2010)
Plot Summary:
When terrorist action releases a secret government virus in the Houston Federal building, the employees become aggressive and homicidal. Federal officials quarantine the building to wipe out the infected and control the story, but a small group of uninfected are fighting to get out.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense
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The Maze (2010)
Plot Summary:
Five friends break into a closed corn maze in the middle of the night and decide to play a harmless game of tag. Little do they know that a psychopathic killer has decided to play along. As they wander aimlessly through the maze the murderer follows closely behind, taunting them and watching their every move. The game turns deadly when the kids decide to separate and weaken their chances of survival. When the mutilated body of the maze owner is found they realize that something is terribly wrong. As they race to find the entrance of the maze, the murderer cleverly forces them to follow the path that he wants. Manipulating everyone to his vicious will, the killer taunts his victims and leads them further into the depths of the maze. After succumbing to hours of torture will anyone make it out of the maze...alive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film, slasher
Similar in 79%
Insanitarium (2008)
Plot Summary:
After he's institutionalized in order to cover for his sister, a young man encounters a doctor who is turning his patients into flesh-eating psychopaths.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, disturbing, tense, serious, suspense, slasher, psychological horror
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Hell's Highway (2003)
Plot Summary:
Driving home from a deep desert rave, seven teenage friends travel off the beaten path only to be trapped in a reality far more horrible and frightening than any nightmare they could possibly imagine...Flesh eating cannibals roam this stretch of tortured land, feeding off anyone who is foolish enough to stray into their deadly territory.Now the friends must become as savage as their attackers if they are to escape the desert alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 801
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, suspense, bleak, road movie, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, awful
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Visible Scars (2012)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen years ago, Mike kills a new mother of twin girls and took the babies to a house in the woods, claiming them as his own to appease his wife's desire for kids. 10 years later Stacy flees to her uncle's old secluded cabin in those same woods to escape her abusive boyfriend. There she is haunted by the ghosts of the little girls crying for their mother.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, spooky, scary, rough, realistic, independent film
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Sick Boy (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sick Boy stars Skye McCole Bartusiak as Lucy, a young woman who steps in for a friend to take a job babysitting a young boy confined to his room due to a mysterious illness. Lucy begins to suspect the child’s mother, played by horror legend Debbie Rochon, is hiding something—the truth turns out to be far worse than she could imagine.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense, demonic, realistic, independent film
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Blood Shed (2013)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on the true events of a homeless loner who moves into a self-storage facility inhabited by a community of bizarre squatters until they are locked in for the night with a deranged female who hunts them down in search of her lost child.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, independent film
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The Black Waters of Echo's Pond (2009)
Plot Summary:
Nine friends take a holiday at a Victorian home on a private island and uncover a game that when played brings out the worst in each of them. Jealously, greed, hatred, lust, all of the things they keep buried deep inside themselves rise to the surface and come to a boil.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, fast, cult film
Similar in 81%
Dire Wolf (2009)
Plot Summary:
A vicious genetically modified creature that's half human and half dire wolf escapes from a research facility so it can go on a murderous rampage in a quiet rural community. It's up to the easygoing Sheriff Parker, eager game warden Jim, and a couple of government agents to stop the beast before things get too out of hand.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 578
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, rough, suspense, independent film
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7 Mummies (2006)
Plot Summary:
Six escaped convicts and their female hostage make a desperate run for the Mexican border, where they stumble across a lost treasure of untold wealth, and find certain death instead on the Arizona desert.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, psychotronic
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Death Row (2007)
Plot Summary:
As eight convicts serve their sentences in a work-release program at a creepy abandoned prison, an unknown killer stalks them.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, scary, independent film
Similar in 88%
Phantom Force (2004)
Plot Summary:
A squad of soldiers must protect the human race from the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, exciting, rough, serious, psychotronic
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Abducted (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jessica and Dave along with three other young couples are kidnapped in Griffith Park by unseen Abductors and must fight to escape certain death only to discover the world will never be the same.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, scary, exciting
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The Bucks County Massacre (2010)
Plot Summary:
On Saturday, May 17th, 2008, police responded to a residence in a remote area of Bucks County, Pennsylvania for the report of a missing person. Upon their arrival, a routine investigation was performed and it was determined that the situation did not require police intervention. When the police returned the next morning to do a courtesy follow up, the house was immediately found to be the scene of a crime.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, scary, rough, realistic, independent film
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The Bleeding (2009)
Plot Summary:
Surrounded by carnage, slaughter, brutal crashes and total mayhem, Shawn Black is in a race to save the world from pure evil.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, independent film, fast
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Swamp Zombies!!! (2005)
Plot Summary:
A chief physician at a large metropolitan hospital is formulating a serum to resurrect recently deceased "patients".When his facility comes under inspection from the federal government, the doctor is forced to dispose of the "patients" as quick as possible even though they are in mid-experiment and he doesn't know if his serum even will work. With the help of the evil hospital operations manager, he manages to ditch the experiments in the neighboring swamplands. Little do they know, their serum works, the experiments rise to "life" and wreck havoc on a group of students conducting science experiments at the swamplands. With the help of a swamp hermit, a beautiful innocent bystander, a park ranger, and the police captain they try to piece together what has gone on... as well as survive.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, serious, grindhouse, hilarious, neo noir
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The Dark Lurking (2009)
Plot Summary:
The eight remaining survivors of a secret research facility barricade themselves away from a horde of ancient and deadly creatures.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, space horror, scary, independent film, futuristic
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After Effect (2012)
Plot Summary:
College students sign up for what seems a simple paid research study, they soon realize their lives are in danger. Unfortunately they've unknowingly volunteered their bodies as human collateral in an ongoing U.S. Military experiment.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary, serious
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Zombie Town (2007)
Plot Summary:
Local mechanic Jake LaFond's life is suddenly disrupted when mysterious parasites transform the law-abiding citizens of his quaint hometown into hoards of cannibalistic zombies. Isolated from the outside world by an accident on the only road out of town, Jake turns to Alex, his ex-girlfriend, for help. Together they try to solve the mystery behind this rapidly spreading infection. As the town grow.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, suspense